Improvement in saw-handles



J'. C. DIETRICH.

Improvement in Saw-Handles.

NO. 132,258. v Patente'd Oct. 15,587.2.

UNITED STATES PATENT CEEIcE.

JEROME C. DIETRICH, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAW-HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 132,25S, dated October 15, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JEROME C. DIETRICH, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a certain kind of Saw-Handle, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to the construction of a handle which may be applied to all kinds of hand-saws 5 and consists in combining two handles, so arranged that the operator is enabled to freely use both hands to guide the saw to the cut, and to exert much greater power upon it While sawing.

Figure Vl is a side elevation of invent-ion.

B represents the ordinary handle, which is grasped with the right hand, and just above and in front of it is a second one, A, which is intended for the left hand.

By this arrangement of a double handle the operator is enabled not only to use both hands at once, and to exert his full power or strength upon the saw while in motion, but can guide it more readily to the cut he desires to make.

In using the commonV saw-handle the operator frequently is compelled to grasp the handle with both hands, but as there is no handle for the second hand a large part of the power exerted is lost. When the second handle is provided the operator can do much more Work and with greater ease to himself.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture a double saw-handle, when constructed substantially as shown and described. v

JEROME C. DIETRICH. Witnesses:

CosMos J. SEU'RLY, CHAs. J. HUMPEREY. 

